Corpora are now indispensable
tools
in research and everyday practice for translators, lexicographers,
second language learners. Specialists in these areas share a general
goal in using corpora in their work: corpora provide the possibility to
find and analyse linguistic patterns characteristic of various kinds of
language users, monitor language change, and reveal important
similarities and divergences across different languages. For professional
translators corpora present an invaluable linguistic and
cultural awareness tools. For language learners,
they serve as a means to gain insights into specifics of competent
language use as well as to analyse typical errors of fellow learners.
For lexicographers, corpora are key for monitoring
the development of the vocabularies of languages, making informed
decisions as to lexicographic relevance of the lexical material, and
for general verification of all varieties of lexicographic data.

While simple corpus analysis
tools
such as concordancers have been long in use in these specialist areas,
in the past decade there have been important developments in Natural
Language Processing (NLP) technologies: it has become much easier to
construct corpora and powerful NLP methods have become available that
can be used to analyse corpora not only on the surface level, but also
on the syntactic, and even semantic, pragmatic, and stylistic levels.

This workshop aims to bring
together
the developers and the users of NLP technologies for the purposes of
translation, translation studies, lexicography, terminology, and
language learning in order to present their research and discuss new
possibilities and challenges in these fields.

Submissions
are invited for the following topics of interest to
the workshop:

NLP
methodologies for processing parallel and comparable corpora

Context-sensitive
dictionary look-up

Corpus-based
study and identification of cognates and false friends

Compilation
and use of corpora in translation studies

Corpus-based study of properties of translated
text:

translation
universals

phraseology

lexical and grammatical patterns

Corpora
in translator training

Translation
of terms and collocations using corpora

Bilingual
concordancing in translation applications

NLP
methods for Computer-Aided Translation

Compilation
of specialised terminologies

Compilation
of corpora for bilingual lexicography

Detection
of gaps in bilingual dictionaries

Corpus-based
estimation of lexicographic relevance

Term
and collocation extraction

Discovery
of illustrative examples and definitions of words and word senses in
corpora

Reading
and writing aid applications for language learners

Automated
text glossing in Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL)

Corpus-based
design of assessment materials in CALL

Error
detection and error analysis in CALL

Detection
of first-language interference in learner corpora

IMPORTANT
DATES

Extended paper
submission deadline:

July 10, 2009

Workshop paper
acceptance notification:

August 10, 2009

Camera-ready
papers for workshop
proceedings due:

August 24, 2009

Workshop date:

September 17, 2009

SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS

Papers must be submitted in
PDF
format as e-mail attachments to iustina dot ilisei at gmail-com. The
e-mail should use the subject header "RANLP-2009 workshop".

Format
Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work
in the topic area of this workshop. Papers (in PDF
format conforming to the RANLP 2009 stylefiles)
should not exceed 8 pages. The RANLP 2009 stylefiles are available at:http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/submissions.htm

As reviewing will be blind, the papers should not
include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the authors' identities should be avoided.
Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected
without review.

Reviewing
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the
Programme Committee. Reviewers will be asked to provide detailed
comments, and to score submitted papers on the following factors:

Relevance to the workshop

Significance and originality

Technical/methodological accuracy

References to related work

Presentation (clarity, organisation, English)

Accepted papers policy
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. By
submitting a paper at the workshop the authors agree that, in case the
paper is accepted for publication, at least one of the authors will
attend the workshop; all workshop participants are expected to pay the
RANLP-2009 workshop registration fee.